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Resource Partitioning, the Founding of Specialist Firms and Innovation: the American Feature Film Industry, 1912–1929

In: Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction

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  • John M. Mezias
  • Stephen J. Mezias

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The so-called independent film production companies dominated the 1996 Academy Awards. Of the five nominees for best picture, a Hollywood studio produced only one. Van Gelder (1996: 9) described the phenomena of the rise of the much smaller and more specialized independents, asserting that the films produced and distributed by these firms demonstrated ‘… their dominance over the products of the Big Hollywood studios.’ Despite somewhat greater success of studio films in the Academy awards during the subsequent two years, independent films continue to command attention. This continuing trend was epitomized by the surprise win for best picture of 1998 by Shakespeare in Love.

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  • John M. Mezias & Stephen J. Mezias, 2002. "Resource Partitioning, the Founding of Specialist Firms and Innovation: the American Feature Film Industry, 1912–1929," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction, chapter 4, pages 83-110, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-2025-6_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403920256_4
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